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George Eliot Established Her Own Philosophy For Living, Jaxon Sprague Mcquarrie
George Eliot Established Her Own Philosophy For Living, Jaxon Sprague Mcquarrie
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In the Hall of Fame of the nineteenth-century English novelists there has been for the last forty or fifty years one conspicuously empty place. Dickens, Scott, Jane Austin, the Brontes, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, these have remained unchallenged in their greatness.
The Religious Conversions Of John Donne, Roy Mcauley
The Religious Conversions Of John Donne, Roy Mcauley
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John Donne, seventeenth century writer, has always enjoyed a certain following as a literary man. He is appreciated now for his poetic genius, but in his day, he was better known as the author of sermons and religious arguments. Donne’s reputation as a poet and a preacher was in eclipse for many years, until revived in the past few decades by students who saw his real genius as a poet. Perhaps one reason Donne was neglected in the past is that he is such a difficult man to understand. Even today the average reader is apt to accept him as …
William Butler Yeats And The Thoor Ballylee, Marion Keller
William Butler Yeats And The Thoor Ballylee, Marion Keller
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Among contemporary poets, William Butler Yeats remains unsurpassed. His achievement as a poet is even greater when one considers the struggle which was a part of it. Although it is difficult and, perhaps, unwise to claim immorality for contemporary art, the critics have not hesitated to applaud Yeats and claim him as one of the great poets of all time. W. Somerset Maugham said of Yeats: “He was certainly the greatest poet of his generation, and I think it is safe to bet that he will occupy an honorable, more, an exalted place in the long line of poets who, …